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Transcriptomes of human whole blood cells in sepsis patients

GSE294985 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 40 samples Submitted 2026/03/11 Platform GPL29480
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 40 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
40 samples: 30 × sepsis patient vs 10 × healthy controlGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Construction of a robust sepsis prognostic classifier based on E3 ubiquitin ligase-related genesFrontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026
Summary (written by the submitters)
This study focuses on the transcriptomic characteristics of whole blood cells in sepsis patients. Sepsis is a severe systemic infection that often leads to multiple organ dysfunction. Its pathogenesis is complex and involves the abnormal activation of various cellular and molecular pathways. By analyzing the transcriptomes of whole blood cells in sepsis patients through sequencing, we aim to reveal the key changes in gene expression and their potential regulatory mechanisms during the onset and progression of sepsis.
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The study included sepsis patients with different underlying diseases and also set up a healthy control group for comparative analysis.
Published in
Construction of a robust sepsis prognostic classifier based on E3 ubiquitin ligase-related genes
Xue H, Chen L, Zhao X et al. · Frontiers in molecular biosciences 2026 · PMID 41783141 · doi:10.3389/fmolb.2026.1726356
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE294985_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1252151 and SRA study SRP579501. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
30 × sepsis patient vs 10 × healthy control

Supports a case/control comparison: 30 samples read as cases, 10 as controls.

How we read this: 2 replicated groups read from 40 sample titles; they account for 40 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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